About
I'm Matthias Jordan. I photograph, I build things for the web, and I cook. This site is where all three end up — a personal archive rather than a portfolio, kept deliberately open.
The photography comes first: long-exposure coastal work, drone frames from California, Hawaii and Baja, film and iPhone snapshots, and generative pieces trained on my own images. Some of it is published as series with process notes; some of it is just a photograph and a date.
The software half is mostly infrastructure for the open web. I've built AT Protocol tooling, Cloudflare Workers, small AI hardware projects, and — most recently — Farfield, the self-hosted, content-addressed backend that serves everything you're reading here. I write those up as I go, including the parts that didn't work.
The recipes are the ones I actually cook, written in a tabular format borrowed from Cooking for Engineers: ingredients down the left, operations bracketing rightward, so a row reads as one ingredient's whole story.
Professionally I work as a solutions engineer in Southern California. This site isn't a product and isn't for sale — there's nothing to buy, no account to make, and no newsletter. It's a place to put work where it belongs to me.
Elsewhere
This site
Built with Astro on Cloudflare Workers, reading a self-hosted Farfield backend. Content is content-addressed, every page has a markdown twin, and the whole thing is open source. Seedevelopers for the machine-readable surfaces, or now for what I'm up to lately.